Web based systems have been shown to be useful tools for supporting educational communication for teachers and students. In this paper we present such a system, which is an Integr...
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Smart disks, a type of processor-embedded active I/O devices, with their on-disk memory and network interface controller, can be viewed as processing elements with attached storage...
The di culty of embedded system co-design is increasing rapidly due to the increasing complexity of individual parts, the variety of parts available and pressure to use multiple p...
Nowadays, there are many protocols able to cope with process crashes, but, unfortunately, a process crash represents only a particular faulty behavior. Handling tougher failures (...